Quake III: Arena Demo Menu Enhancement

Download the enhancement. (79.8KB) UPDATED 1:30am CST 1/30/00 with new features
Running a QVM for the UI will not impact performance noticably on any machine capable of running quake3, so I have removed the DLL version. If you get an error message regarding a uix86.dll, simply delete that file and you should be fine.

Put this file in your baseq3 folder, and the following features will be added to your demo menu (3-5 are new):
(1) You will be able to start a demo by pressing [Enter] while a demo is selected;
(2) You can access demos in sub-directories of the Demos folder;
(3) Column widths will be automatically adjusted to fit your demo names without overlap;
(4) You can use "escape" and "backspace" to back up one folder - escape will go back to the main menu, but backspace stops at "demos";
(5) Demos and directories are sorted alphabetically.

Note: this .pk3 only contains the file "vm\ui.qvm" and "vm\readme.txt". Since its name lies after pak?.pk3 alphabetically, it will replace id's default ui.qvm. You can also create a new directory in your Quake III root directory (eg, a "demos" directory) and put "qdemo_ui.pk3" in this new directory. The enhanced demo features can then be accessed by running quake3 with the "+set fs_game demos" command line option. You can do this from the command line, or by editing a quake3 shortcut.

You can email me at [email protected] to get the source code, if you wish. I only modified the ui_demo2.c file.

Trick Jumps

All the jumps demoed here are ones that I personally discovered. It is possible that other people have discovered them independently.

dm9 megahealth 1 get mega from rl
dm9 megahealth 2 get mega from rl
dm9 railgun get railgun from ground level
dm9 shortcut 1 get to raised levels from rl
dm9 shortcut 2 get to raised levels instead of rl
dm12 armor get red and yellow armor in one jump
dm12 camping spot get to the top of the map above the pool
dm12 obvious who hasn't found how to get to the platforms beside the rl?
dm12 megahealth get the megahealth from the ground by the pool
dm17 painless 1 jump from ssg to ssg without getting hurt
dm17 painless 2 jump from rl level to bottom level without getting hurt
dm17 painless 3 jump from bottom level to rl level without getting hurt
q3tourney6 jump rocket jump up to bfg
hits since 1/29/00